Eagle-Eyes spotted a flyer titled, Emergency Shelters & Disaster First-Aid Stations that was prepared and published by the Emergency Services Subcommittee of the Petaluma Area Chamber of Commerce in 1990. Why, then, did he show it to "Me, Myself & I" and yell, "What a coincidence!" Hammerhead put in his [...]
Eagle-Eyes spotted the P.S. in my last blog (1-7-08), Did you notice the use of "concerned? It a hidden clue to a future blog." Here it is - The recent storms that hit Petaluma and Sonoma County caused a loss of electric power, here and there, for more than just [...]
As stated in Emergency Preparedness Blog #25 - "Stay tuned, the R.Q. averages for zip codes 94952 and 94954 will be released this weekend." OK, so we a week late; but we wanted to allow time for the "Prepare Petaluma Forum" to be held first - which was last Thursday. [...]
September 2007 was our 4th Annual National Emergency Preparedness Month. Eighteen hundred organizations sponsored over 1,000 events designed to motivate the American people to "Get Ready" and to prepare for emergencies from natural disasters to terrorist attacks. Here in Petaluma, our Alliance for Local Emergency Response Teams (ALERT) sponsored or [...]
As most Petaluma360 readers know, September has been declared National Emergency Preparedness Month by Homeland Security and Citizen Corps. Petaluma ALERT (Alliance of Local Emergency Response Teams) has planned several EP events and activities, such as: four Neighborhood Emergency Response Team meetings (NERTs), and three Farmers Market booths that [...]
I thought I was being clever (actually, it was Hammerhead) when I posted two blogs with catchy quotes: Let's 'Ham-It Up' at the Fair! and Hammerhead is becoming a real 'Ham-bone.' Eagle-Eyes didn't think the use of term "Ham-bone" was appropriate, considering everything that "Hams" (or licensed amateur radio operators) [...]
It's 9am and I'm on my way to take update photographs of the "eye sore," next door to our Visitors Center (the former RR Depot at Lakeville and Washington). As I'm leaving my block in the Westridge Knolls neighborhood, I notice a Fire Dept. engine company is getting ready [...]
Earlier this week, the Argus-Courier featured Westridge Knolls in its neighborhood series and what the current residents think about living there. It was exactly one year ago that this same neighborhood made the news; but, as the "birthplace" of the Petaluma NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Team) initiative. The headline [...]
Those three words were the answers given by an official when asked what were the three major problems in the government's disaster relief response during Katrina. It was this exact word - communications - that motivated this blogger to explore how well prepared Petaluma was to handle a major [...]
Deadline - San Francisco - 02/07/07 - RSA Security Conference Headline - The time to plan for a disaster is now! Quotes - Do not count on government. You need to be self-sufficient. The government isn't going to save you. I don't mean to pick on government agencies, but [...]